Quotes About Harsh

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

'Shank' is set in 2015, and it's set in a post-apocalyptic world where the main commodity is food. It's about how five young gentlemen travel around that harsh terrain and survive.

Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.

Reality is an AIDS-riddled whore.

Reality is often unkind to legends.

Not an elegant wine or a mellow brandy but harsh spirits.

I ask no comfort, Taran replied, but the truth, be it harsh or happy. Ah, my sweet robin, said Orddu, for the finding of that, nothing is harder. There are those who have spent lifetimes at it, and many in worse plight than yours.

When the raw, harsh liquor had cut the dust from his throat he looked up at a nearby

They were men shaped and tempered to the harsh ways of a harsh land, strong in their sense of justice, ruthless in their demand for punishment, relentless in pursuit. From the desert they had carved their homes, and from the desert they drew their courage and their code, and the desert knows no mercy.

Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.

Most of the time she preferred to be sardonically out of line, out of step. To sound harsher than she was. Which fooled nobody, strangely enough. People saw through her tough-guy routine, even liked her for it, and the cruder her formulations, the harder she tried to be this radical alienated individual, the more profoundly she was loved.

They say the truest beauty is in the harshest land and that God can be found there by those with open eyes.

The snow wasn't deep - in many places its crust was firm enough that they actually walked on top of it - but the wind was surgical, a precision instrument with needles for teeth, and it found even the tiniest exposed places on her skin, attacking them.

The black rock was sharp-edged, hot, and hard as corundum; it seemed not merely alien but impervious to life. Yet on the southern face of almost every rock the lichens grew, yellow, rusty-brown, yellow-green, like patches of dirty paint daubed on the stone.

Regrettably I have found it unavoidable to write some harsh words about my seasonal employer the National Park Service

Hers is a low voice, full of pebbles—a sailor's voice or a smoker's.

Everything had been beaten down and baked by the sun

I think the western is about people in harsh places trying to tame an unfriendly wilderness. Because life is defined by struggle, it's kind of the perfect microcosmic experience to explore that. 'Here we are, struggling.' It's about people persevering and persevering and persevering.

The French press can be very harsh, and the one thing they can't bear is multi-tasking. They despise it to the highest degree, so from the age of five I've been taught that if I did two things at the same time, it meant I didn't know how to do one. It's an obsession that they have.

Time wore all of them down, administered harsh lessons in humility to even the finest physical specimens.

open, the light streaming in in a harsh triangle, Henry's face was

sunken to that of an old woman in the harsh disguise

A wise is only good to a truly nice person and may also employ a bad or harsh voice to the wicked people.

I want to be perceived - or maybe I perceive myself - as this really easygoing, honest person that's just giving. Realistically, I have those qualities, but I'm very aggressive. I can be very harsh. It comes off almost mean, you know?